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Fitting a Query Engine in Three Cache Lines
3/7/2026
Why the bytecode that powers your analytical queries is smaller than a tweet, and why that matters more than you think.
Kovan: From Production MVCC Systems to Wait-Free Memory Reclamation
2/18/2026
How years of building production concurrent systems led to implementing Crystalline, a wait-free memory reclamation scheme that eliminates tail latency and unbounded memory growth.
The Halberd Join System: Powering On-Premise AI by Mastering Local Data Joins
4/20/2025
Joining massive local datasets is the Achilles' heel of on-premise AI and lakehouse strategies. Discover how the Halberd join system conquers this challenge, unlocking insights without data leakage.
Morsels, Compilation, and People
3/25/2025
Why and why now?